I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time. Amanda Palmer More Quotes by Amanda Palmer More Quotes From Amanda Palmer When I find myself having to share a meal with someone who simply wants to complain about the world, I almost feel myself wanting to crawl out of my skin and just sort of scurry away. But being able to pick up on that stuff and being able to easily identify the people walking towards the light instead of walking towards the darkness, that's a skill I'm very, very glad to see growing in myself. Amanda Palmer skills light people I get really fantastic results when I just get out of my own way. Amanda Palmer fantastic results way I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed. Amanda Palmer pyramid-schemes top-down thinking When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that’s when the darkness takes over. Amanda Palmer jokes darkness One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians. Amanda Palmer musician artist faces I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral hippie mumu at 37, show up at 47 in see-through latex, and pose semi-naked, like Keith & co, on the cover of Rolling Stone at 57 and be APPLAUDED for being so comfortable with her body. Amanda Palmer rolling musician hippie I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound. Amanda Palmer simple art thinking The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame. Amanda Palmer important perfect giving I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through and to help me stay steady. Amanda Palmer help-me helping people If we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow. Amanda Palmer ifs All of my music, my stage show, my personality, my blog, my twitter feed, anything that's made me me, and a huge part of why people like and respect me, is that I just don't spend much energy on that other stuff. It's not worth it. It's a losing battle too. You're just screwed the minute you engage. Amanda Palmer battle personality people I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running my band and touring and making posters and practicing with my band and working on my vocals, but I didn't spend a large pie chart of my time sifting through criticism as well, and nowadays I do, and all female artists do, because to be able to promote your work, you need to live in those spaces. Amanda Palmer writing running thinking I think being a woman in any business that's dominated by men, you have your garden variety pros and cons, where you learn how to focus and harness your various powers and weaknesses for better or for good. Amanda Palmer garden men thinking The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end Amanda Palmer dozen bed color The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like Im in the middle of a battlefield. Amanda Palmer balance challenges feelings Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment. Amanda Palmer path want believe I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other. Amanda Palmer motivation inspiration fall I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life. Amanda Palmer artist meditation thinking If you love people enough, they will give you everything. Amanda Palmer enough giving people We are human and our nature is to air... Amanda Palmer humans air
